Emerging Markets

The Dutch development finance institution has partnered with sustainable trade initiative IDH to launch the initiative.

Initiative 20x20, a collaboration between LatAm and Caribbean countries, multilateral organisations and the private sector, will restore 20m hectares of degraded forest and agricultural land across the region.

The Indian food and agribusiness private equity fund is close to a first close on $100m; it is currently on $80m with commitments from a range of DFIs and Rabobank.

Over half the countries surveyed do not meet the minimum target investment into agricultural R&D of 1 percent of agricultural GDP.

The social impact investor invested $2m in debt into Tropha Estates while African Agricultural Capital Fund and Jacoma Estates, Tropha's sponsor, invested $2m in equity each.

The growth market PE firm increased its bid for BiscoMisr, which is listed in Cairo, after Kelloggs beat its initial offer.

Turkish agribusiness Yasar Holding has issued a $250m bond on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to refinance existing debt.

National politics and the risks they entail can create havoc for agriculture investment managers.

Following the most contentious election in Brazil for a generation, Liquid Investments has published a white paper: 'Brazil: Victory Spells Opportunity’.

The IISD Guide to Negotiating Investment Contracts for Farmland and Water focuses on how to mitigate the social, environmental and economic risks inherent when domestic laws are not enough.